Gay Marriage Watch

As our good friend Jackson West notes, pro- Prop 8 group Protect Marriage has issued a cease and desist letter to the anti-Prop. 8 group, Courage Campaign. The bone of contention: Courage Campaign’s Prop 8 Trial Tracker logo, which satirizes Protect Marriage’s logo in a gayish kind of way.

In a cease and desist letter sent to Courage Campaign, Browse McDowell’s John M. Skeriotis (this is a big PDF but TOTALLY WORTH IT!), a lawyer for Protect Marriage, claims that the parody logo constitutes trademark and copyright infringement, and is a “counterfeit” mark of Protect Marriage’s logo.

At publication time, the Courage Campaign has refused to back down and change the logo.

Full Story from SF Appeal

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The effort to get same sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010 took a hit Monday. Rick Jacobs, the leader of the 700,000-member Courage Campaign sent out an email announcing that after spending more than $200,000 on “qualitative research” into the issue in California that “We do not see a path to victory.”

So, the Courage Campaign sent a note to its supporters Monday calling “for more research and time to change hearts and minds before returning to the ballot.”

In his email, Jacobs said that the research — led by Obama confidante Steve Hildebrand — found that “The biggest hangup people have is that right wing has done a very good job of telling people that somehow children will be affected” should same sex marriage become legal. It worked in both Maine and California, even though top public officials in both places said it would not.

Full Story from Cal Coast News: http://calcoastnews.com/2009/12/no-clear-path-to-victory-for-gay-marriage/

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